Malus toringoides

Malus toringoides is a crabapple species in the family Rosaceae, with the common name cut-leaf crabapple.

Malus toringoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Malus
Species:
M. toringoides
Binomial name
Malus toringoides
Hughes

The tree is endemic to mountain ranges of China, located within Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and Sichuan Provinces.

Malus toringoides is a wild crabapple tree, and is sometimes used as a root stock in apple hybridizing. It is a naturally occurring hybrid species with multiple ploidy levels.[1]

References

  1. Li, Y. N. 2001. Researches of germplasm resources of Malus Mill.. – China Agriculture Press
  • Tang, L.; Li, J.; Tan, S.; Li, M.-X.; Ma, X.; Zhou, Z.-Q. (2014). "New insights into the hybrid origin of Malus toringoides and its close relatives based on a single-copy nuclear gene SbeI and three chloroplast fragments". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 52 (4): 477–486. doi:10.1111/jse.12079. S2CID 82625023.


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